WEDNESDAY, April 10, 20135-7:30 p.m. Special Event“Crisis Mapping Training Session” featuring an overview of basic techniques and tools used in crisis mapping
Presenter: Dr. Jen Ziemke and Dr. Colin Swearingen, Political ScienceDolan Science Center, E240Open to the JCU Community only.
Crisis mappers leverage technology to present and analyze real-time reports from people “on the ground” in humanitarian emergencies. That information helps first responders and other key personnel make decisions and take action more effectively during crises. (Learn more about crisis mapping in this John Carroll University magazine article.) Registration for the session is required, as space is limited. Please note that participants will be required to bring a laptop computer.

Questions about privacy online focus on individuals and their choice to go online and message friends, look for a mortgage rate, research a family member’s disease, or browse for dog toys. Instead, I wish to focus on the responsibilities of the unseen tracking companies (trackers) watching us online when they decide to enter our online community.

The goal of this presentation is to identify the different roles and responsibilities of the many actors online within the current network of surveillance and tracking. I suggest tracking companies play three possible roles – as a member of a supply chain of information traders, within a network of surveillance online, and as an arm of law enforcement. I illustrate how different trackers fall into these three different roles online.